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Cyrus the Great

Cyrus the Great
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Cyrus the Great with a Hemhem crown
King of Persia
Reign 559–530 BC
Predecessor Cambyses I
Successor Cambyses II
King of Media
Reign 549–530 BC
Predecessor Astyages
Successor Cambyses II
King of Lydia
Reign 547–530 BC
Predecessor Croesus
Successor Cambyses II
King of Babylon
Reign 539–530 BC
Predecessor Belshazzar
Successor Cambyses II
Born 600 or 576 BC
Anshan, Persia
Died 4 December, 530 BC
Along the Syr Darya
Burial Pasargadae
Consort
Issue
House Achaemenid
Father Cambyses I
Mother Mandane of Media

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